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The Green Bay Packers are wasting no time searching for their next president and CEO even though Mark Murphy will fill the role until July 2025.

Green Bay announced Wednesday that "Murphy will formally retire in July 2025 when he turns 70, the mandatory retirement age for the position as required by organizational by-laws."

There is already a search committee in place to fill the position, and Packers executive committee vice president and lead director Susan Finco is leading the way as the chairperson. Dan Ariens, who is the executive committee secretary and chair of the personnel and compensation committee, will be the search committee's vice chair.

"Mark's contributions to the organization have been tremendous," Finco said in the team's announcement. "From updating the corporate leadership structure to growing and diversifying revenue to increasing the meaningful impact of the Packers in the community, Mark continues to position the Packers for success. We look forward to his insightful leadership in the next year and a half."

The search committee worked with Korn Ferry, which is a national search firm, to identify Murphy when it was seeking a replacement for Bob Harlan in 2007. It will once again work with the firm for this search.

Once the committee finishes its work in six to nine months, it will present its identified candidate to the board of directors for a vote. Whoever is chosen will then work with Murphy in a transition period.

Murphy played defensive back in the NFL for Washington for eight seasons from 1977 to 1984. He was a Super Bowl champion and was named to the Pro Bowl and All-Pro First Team in the 1983 campaign when he led the league with nine interceptions.

He has been the Packers' president and CEO for the past 16 seasons during a period of extraordinary success.

Green Bay has made the playoffs in 12 of his 16 years at the helm and has featured stability at the key positions with Aaron Rodgers under center for much of his tenure and only two full-time head coaches in Mike McCarthy and Matt LaFleur.

The Packers won the Super Bowl during Murphy's third season and have been to the NFC Championship Game five times.

It will be difficult for the next president to replicate that level of consistency over an extended period of time, but quarterback Jordan Love looks like a franchise cornerstone and the team is coming off yet another postseason appearance.